by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Jan 17, 2013

The CBC News is reporting that Gavin van der Linde, the mayor of Morris, a southern Manitoba town, is “furious over what he calls racist comments about aboriginal people in the latest edition of the community newspaper”. The editorial of the Morris Mirror’s current edition (PDF), penned by editor-in-chief Reed Turcotte, also labels Canada’s Aboriginals and Idle No More activists ”terrorists”.

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natives are acting like terrorists in their own country. Indians/Natives want it all but corruption and laziness prevent some of them from working for it.

Earlier this week, someone suggested that, if chosen to succeed Dalton McGuinty as Ontario premier next weekend, Liberal leadership front-runner Kathleen Wynne would invite the Ontario New Democrats to form a coalition government. NDP leader, Andrea Horwath, has dismissed the idea. In a letter recently mailed to supporters, she said the coalition government talk is “a distraction from the issues.”

“With so many Ontario families struggling in tough economic times, we’re not interested in playing political games for personal gain,” she said. ”We’re not interested in a coalition government.”

by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives | Jan 17, 2013:

OTTAWA—A new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives compares the Canada and Alberta experience to that of Norway, another major petroleum producing and exporting country, and finds they have taken very different paths and with very different outcomes.

by Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada | Jan 15, 2013:

In honour of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s historic 1988 decision to overturn the nation’s criminal abortion law, the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada is delighted to dedicate a new website to the anniversary: www.morgentaler25years.ca